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Author Linda Chapman with Children's Librarian Kate Mackenzie at Pinhoe Library, Exeter as part of the Spill the Ink tour organised by Harper Collins publishers and Devon Libraries
St Thomas School Fete fun.
We positioned ourselves under an old tree which sheltered us from the rain and the hot sun (yes there was both!) and hung postcards of book covers and the Summer Reading Challenge from the branches along with some bunting.
Joe Blackman and myself worked our socks off encouraging the customers over to the stall
I managed to do a presentation on stage for a very chuffed Book Tracker winner also advertising how brilliant our library service was, of course.
RADIO EXE mentioned the library several times throughout the day and our competition 'Spot the Spider' (a grid based game) went down a storm. About 130 odd people had a go (adults and kids)! The biggest pull was that it was FREE and you could win something. Oh and the sweets on the table helped too.
Anyway I believe over 350 people that day must have seen or heard something about the St Thomas Library, which we are happy with.
Aunt Oddema Dodd's whispers about certain little people. - London: Dean, [1857]. - [16]; illus. - Illustrator: William Newman. - Late one of the 'Punch' artists; 1st series.
Exeter College Student picking up her free World Book Night book and the 6 Book Reading Challenge Pack.
Volunteers help borrowers with a variety of queries as part of Create/Innovate month at Seaton Library
St Thomas Library. Star Wars Reads Day with Dorling Kindersley. CGI photography session with Face Painting. 2015 October.
Stunning landmark building in Newton Abbot town centre, designed by Cornish architect Silvanus Trevail and originally opened in 1904.
Children made shadow puppets and then used them in the shadow puppet theatre. Photos were taken using a Raspberry Pi mini computer and will be made into an animated film. The film will be shown at the next Raspberry Jam event Saturday 22nd February 10am - 12pm at Exeter Central Library.
Children enjoyed stories, milk and cookies and then said 'Goodnight' to their soft toys. The bears got up to all sorts of mischief before falling asleep.
The frog who would a wooing go. - London: Routledge, n.d. - 7p; col. illus. - Illustrated by Charles Henry Bennett
Author Linda Chapman at Pinhoe Library, Exeter as part of the Spill the Ink tour organised by Harper Collins publishers and Devon Libraries
Alistair Banks from Optix Solutions gave a Digital Marketing free workshop at Exeter Library 5.30pm – 8pm 4th June 2015. He gave an overview of recent and upcoming changes in the digital landscape. Attendees went away with loads of ideas to take back into their businesses.
HRH Duchess of Cornwall, escorted by Ciara Eastell head of Devon Libraries, visited the Fab Lab and met staff and volunteers.
January Energy Saving Display with books and energy monitors for loan. Exeter Central Library and the Citizens Advice Bureau Big Energy Saving Network Community Event 31st Jan 10 am - 3 pm to help reduce energy bills.
Denford 6600 Pro CNC milling machine waiting for the glass window to be temporarily removed to allow installation in the Fab Lab Exeter.
Cinderella / retold by C.S. Evans. - London: Heinemann, 1919. - 110p; plate; illus (some col.) - Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur.
St Thomas School Fete fun.
We positioned ourselves under an old tree which sheltered us from the rain and the hot sun (yes there was both!) and hung postcards of book covers and the Summer Reading Challenge from the branches along with some bunting.
Joe Blackman and myself worked our socks off encouraging the customers over to the stall
I managed to do a presentation on stage for a very chuffed Book Tracker winner also advertising how brilliant our library service was, of course.
RADIO EXE mentioned the library several times throughout the day and our competition 'Spot the Spider' (a grid based game) went down a storm. About 130 odd people had a go (adults and kids)! The biggest pull was that it was FREE and you could win something. Oh and the sweets on the table helped too.
Anyway I believe over 350 people that day must have seen or heard something about the St Thomas Library, which we are happy with.
L-R Ciara Eastell (head of libraries), Cllr Roger Croad, Cllr Gordon Hook, Anne Marie Morris MP, Cllr Jerry Brook, Cllr Anne Fry, John Smith (head of services for communities), Cheryl Marshall (Passmore Edwards Centre manager), Anna Matthews (project manager)
There was lots of interest in the Connected Exeter Digital Design Weekend. Exeter College, Exeter Phoenix, RAMM, FabLab Devon and the Met Office Trailer were the connected venues for the weekend.
Mal Peet, Carnegie winning author and Exetreme Imagination Festival Curator, gave an outline of the fantastic authors taking part in the festival and introduced Andy Stanton and Meg Rosoff in the audience. Exetreme imagination is Exeter’s festival of writing for and by young people.
The Denford 6600 Pro Router and CTR TMX 12 Laser Cutter in place. CTR then put on a laser training session which was enjoyed by the Fab Lab team who love the laser!
Raspberry Pi set up with a circuit and LED light. Using the Python programming language to write code the LED can be made to blink on and off.
Reading Cafe at Axminster Library
Every Thursday 2-4pm during the summer holidays we held a Reading Cafe at Axminster Library. Reading cafes have been used in school libraries but to our knowledge they are not common in public libraries. The idea behind them is to encourage children and their parents to read together, and then to treat the family to tea and cake.
We literally turned half of our small library into a cafe. Volunteer borrowers made cake and manned the kitchen while our Reading Activists waited and maitre d’ed.
Since we were linking the Reading Cafe to the SRC, we had a Lego table for making a Lego maze and each week we had activities linked to a different Mythical Maze character. Our favourites were a golden thread maze made out of masking tape on the carpet and making our Yeti happy with snowflakes and tins of spaghetti. One week we also made smoothies and another we made a big reading den with a maze corridor made out of cardboard boxes.
The emphasis throughout however remained on books and reading with our Reading Activists chatting to young borrowers about books and what to read next for their Summer Reading Challenge. Since we had over 200 young borrowers from ten local primary schools, we also ran an Inter-Schools Challenge: the school with the most finishers will win a prize for the school. The children have loved the competition.
Our nine Reading Activists set up a twitter account – AxReadingActivists – where you can see the photos they took and posted of the Reading Cafe. There are also photos on Flickr.
Pat, Pene and Sarah
We were very happy to find out that two of the ladies in the photo now have jobs. More information can be found by following the link - Work Clubs
The Adult Fiction Area has modern shelving and furniture but some of the 1960's features have been retained such as the wall clock.
The Ricoh SG 7100DN A3 sublimation printer prints with a special ink that enables transfer of an image, via the hot press, to t-shirts and textiles.
First ever Photography Day. Guest speakers. Displays. Projections. TONY LETHBRIDGE talks about historical photos of St Thomas. Active Life Active mind 2014.
Milo name was drawn from the 534 Exeter Library Summer Reading Challenge finishers to win a £10 book token. He received his prize on 6th November from Senior Supervisor Development Karen and was going straight to a bookshop to buy more of his favourite series Beast Quest books. He read 6 Beast Quest books in the summer holidays to achieve his Summer Reading Challenge gold medal. He has been awarded 4 gold medals over the last 4 years and took them to cubs as part of his collector's badge.